Kalakar Awards- Article

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By TNNPosted On Friday, January 22, 2010 at 04:06:02 PMThe 18th edition of the Prayag Kalakar Awards took place on January 17 at Science City auditorium. A galaxy of

Rituparna, Dev and Aftab

Bollywood and Tollywood stars attended the event to receive their respective awards for excellence in the field of cinema, television and entertainment.

The event began on a somber note with the crowd observing one minute of silence to pay tribute to ex-chief minister, late Jyoti Basu. After a shlok from the Gita, and a hymn sung by Mousumi Das, comperes for the evening Shakil Ansari and Sweta Ttiwari took the floor and announced the inauguration of the Kalakar Awards.

The Lifetime Achievement awards went to Ruma Guha Thakurta. Bollywood star Aftab Shivdasani was welcomed by the audience with gusto for the best actor award along with his Tollywood counterpart Dev for Challenge. Rituparna Sengupta and Swastika Mukherjee received best actress awards for Aaina Te and Brake Fail respectively. Goutam Ghosh won the best director for Kalbela.

For television, the best actor award went to Arjun Bijlani and his co star Mohit Sehgal, both popular as Mayank and Samrat in the Star One serial Miley Jab Hum Tum. Laali of Agle Janam Mein Mohe Bitya Hi Ki Jo (Zee TV) and Sandipta Sen for Durga (Star Jalsa) received the best actress awards. For the year's best new faces on TV, the awards went to Karan Mehra as Natik in the serial Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (Star Plus) and Tina Dutta as Ichcha for Uttaran (Colours Viacom). Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chashma was adjudged the best television serial for 2009. The Kalakar award for best channel award was won by Aaj Tak.

The awards were punctuated by some scintillating dance performances by dancers from Padatik. The highlight of the evening however was a medley of five dance sequences interwoven to create a spell on the audience by Indrani Dutta's dance troupe, Shrishti.

The winners for the best playback singer award for their work in respective Bengali and Hindi segments were Jojo for Mon Mane Na and Rekha Bharadwaj for her chartbuster – Sasural Genda Phool from Delhi 6. Asha Bhonsle's grandson Chintu Bhonsle claimed the Best Album award for his album Sapne Suhane. Kolkata's very own Sanchita Bhattacharya was declared best rising star. Sugandha Misra who won the star entertainer award once again proved why she was such a hit at the laughter challenge show when she regaled the audience with her remarkable voice resemblance to Lata Mangeshkar.

The grand finale was the Kalakar Achiever award given to Udit Narayan who humbly accepted the award and at the crowd's request, sang several of his chartbusters including Papa Kehte Hain and Jaanam Mit Gayee Dooriyan.

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